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Short film having to do with promoting some sort of poultry industry to Petaluma. It opens with a group of young women carrying large buckets of eggs and presenting them to "Chef San Francisco". The people in this production definitely aren't professional actors but that makes it even more funny. Examples are the first woman who speaks "Chef San Francisco... we present to you....the best eggs..." Then the chef speaks the with just as many pauses "My those are some big....beautiful... white eggs". It's almost as if they forgot their lines, or were reading from cue cards.
So the chef decides to have them cook a giant omelette "the largest the world has ever known... and that will mean.......health..... wealth.... happiness", yes sir more pauses. So the women put on chef hats and they break up the eggs and then mix them with spices while the chef pours milk in the bowls.
The film then cuts to the women alone, now in different outfits exercising in a giant frying pan while a giant chicken is in the background. After that randomness they are back with the chef to make the omelette, putting the mixed eggs into the very same giant pan that people were exercising in. At the end, the women (some now wearing chicken hats instead of chef hats) are eating the cooked eggs and commenting on how good they taste.
Weird and funny for intentional and unintentional reasons. It definitely doesn't take itself too seriously and neither should the viewer. Recommended especially for those looking for something a little different to watch here.

An amusing film from an early 30's eggfest with girls cracking eggs, then doing calisthenics looking like Hitler youth - par for the era. I searched carefully to see if the Joads were in the background. Maybe they hadn't arrived yet.
Interestingly, today eggs in the grocery in California cost at least 75 to 150 percent more than they do in the Midwest. Unionized chickens? Mezz'cans don't gather or candle eggs? Who knows.
I did not appreciate the sexual innuendos that Spuzz did. But I did notice that Chef San Francisco did have a bulge in that apron. Maybe it was an omphalocoele.
anyways....Ok flick. Like many others...it's better than that junk they hawk on cable TV.

. . . Butter & Egg Days! This is clearly an old clip of one of the Butter & Egg Day festivities. You can still attend the festival every Spring and witness the crowning of the Butter & Egg Princess. Hooray for Dairy Royalty!
And yes, there was a large Jewish presence in Petaluma in those years. I have had the privilege of talking with some of these now elderly farmers. Quite a fascinating history.

This promo was silly. Probably because of age, the film was dark and had many splices

Petaluma was a magnet for socialist-leaning Jewish farmers from WW I through the 1950s -- there's a documentary (A Home on the Range) and a book (forget the title) about the community, which might seem unlikely but then again everyone was a farmer back then, or one generation off the farm, even the socialists.

The other interesting thing here is that, to back up their claim that the eggs are good, they'll make a really big one. Big's good, right?

Uhhhh, what the hell did I just see?
Since I am almost done viewing all there is too see here, I wasnt expecting anything out of the ordinary anymore. Then comes the Petaluma chicken film which just blows me away for being OUT there and being highly strange and makes me feel uncomfortable at the same time.
A group of women come up to Chef San Fransisco and present him with eggs! Uh, its strange already. Chef welcomes the girls to SF by saying My, those are wonderful beautiful white eggs! and suggests they make an omelet, while trying unsuccessfully to remember his lines. Next scene, the women are making the omelet! Theyre chatting away, while the good chef looks on. The chef offers milk to the eggs as well. Yes, the sexual implications of this is too ridiculous, I know. After that scene, we get the most bizarre cutaway to women excersising. Why? Who knows? But most of them are totally rhythm confused. After that scene, the girls are back cooking their omelet. 2 old codgers come on the screen. I think they might be from a egg group in California. Theyre too stunned to speak at the weirdness going on so they only get a few words out between the two of them. Anyways, the girls continue to cook the omelet as the film ends.
Very very bizarre. A MUST SEE on this site!

I enjoyed the simple humour of this 3 minute b/w film..There are no actors,just natural ordinary people having fun. Parodoxically,I find pleasure in the film,s poor technical production